Ding Fei

Delighted to share that I'm joining @Cornell_CRP as Assistant Professor. Grateful for this opportunity and looking forward to working with amazing colleagues and students in @CornellAAP.

🌟Join our 1st #ASCA #GlobalAfrica seminar (onsite) event this year: “Building Futures, Shaping Resistance: Nairobi in Focus”! Speakers: Elisa Tamburo (Harvard/Oxford) & Fairuzah Atchulo (UvA) Fri, 14 Feb 2025 (3-4:30pm CET) @ Rm D1.18A, OMHP 4-6, 1012 CN Ams #ERC @CAFPower_ERC

New Paper from the GlobalCORRIDOR project based here in Sheffield is out in the latest edition of @USJ_online "The unending corridor: Critical approaches to the politics, logics and socio-technics of urban corridorisation" journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

EPA is delighted to announce that the Ashby prizes for the most innovative papers published in the journal in 2024 were awarded to Don Mitchell (Uppsala) for his paper, ‘Labour geography is tedious: Of contracts, grievances and the nitty-gritty of worker agency in

New @HarvardHBS working paper by @JorisMueller, @jaya_wen_econ & @cherylwoooo, "Public Displays of Alignment: Firm Speech in Autocratic Regimes," measures Chinese firms' rhetorical alignment with the state & analyzes its determinants and effects hbs.edu/ris/Publicatio…

Fantastic piece by @jessicamdicarlo and @MereDeBoom Six paths of Global China: A genealogy of a contested geographical imaginary journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20…

📢New deep-dive paper on China’s BRI lending (Georgetown/AidData/Kiel). We study "How China Collateralizes" its overseas loans — not with ports/infrastructure, but with cash in Chinese bank accounts. The techniques and volumes are striking.🧵Paper here: ifw-kiel.de/fileadmin/Date…

📢 Available in Early View: ‘Darkening’ Informalized Workers: Moral Geographies and the In/Visibilization of Transnational Migrants in Spain By Begoña Aramayona 👉 ijurr.org/article/darken…

New study by Jiayan Yan, Ziliang Deng & @klausmeyer_couk finds executives of firms owned by China's central government are more likely to be promoted if they support state globalization goals, esp. by investing in countries aligned politically w/ China tinyurl.com/bddxjkjz

We have a New Paper! "A dialogue on global infrastructure-led urbanization: Concepts and reorientations" in Dialogues in Human Geography w/ @simoneveglio7, @andretwp, Francesca Governa and @EliaApos Open Access journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.11…

Glad to see this article out in @RIPEJournal! It was a pleasure to collaborate with Yujun combining her extensive fieldwork in Uganda and my work on human capital! "Fragmenting China: a relational approach to analyzing Chinese private companies in Africa" tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

How does migration shape life in your community? We invite students and staff to share essays, poetry, and art that answers this question for a chance to win a cash prize! Submissions due Feb. 28: einaudi.cornell.edu/engage/funding…

Looking forward to this semester's @CornellAAP City and Regional Planning Colloquium. Check out our events page for more details and zoom registration: aap.cornell.edu/news-events/ev…

Is program-level learning outcome measurement improving #UrbanPlanning education—or adding burden? @HarvardGSD Prof. Ann Forsyth challenges the Planning Accreditation Board’s approach, urging the field to rethink how we assess student learning. @The_ACSP journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/07…

Looking forward to the talk!

Cornell's Department of City and Regional Planning is hiring an assistant professor with specialization in data-driven urban analytics and new digital technologies. Review starts on Nov. 30. Please help share widely. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29102

I enjoyed reading and engaging with Jesse's book. A must read if you are interested in political ecology, state territoriality, and ecological displacement in China.

Call for participation in the 2025 CAAC network #AfricaChina Early Career Scholars' Workshop. @UM6P_officiel africa.isp.msu.edu/files/1017/266…